Remote Design Director, Investing

Summary

Join Wealthfront as a Design Director to support one of our two foundational Investing teams. This role is ideal for the design leader who enjoys working across strategy, vision, team, and operations. Success in this role will require strong communication skills, strategic thinking, vision facilitation, a high bar for craft, and executional excellence.

Requirements

• 4+ years of design management experience in a software company with design embedded as part of cross-functional product development teams
• 10+ years of product design experience in a consumer software company
• You know when and how to get into the details to drive high-quality decisions
• You’re an exceptional product thinker who understands the business
• You have a proven track record setting a vision for great customer experiences, inspiring others to get behind a vision, translating a vision into a prioritized roadmap, and ensuring your team ships high quality experiences to bring the team’s vision to customers
• Your have strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
• You’ve helped your teams grow in their creative practice by teaching them how to effectively use tools such as user experience methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles
• You’ve hired and grown a diverse team
• You’ve developed a respectful, inclusive culture where debate is welcomed
• You’ve managed performance across a spectrum of abilities and contexts
• You are naturally curious and are deeply interested in fintech

Responsibilities

• Helping define the next set of innovative, best-in-class products for Investing through structured guidance, facilitating strategy and visioning workshops, etc
• Partnering with pm, eng, research, data science, legal, and compliance leads to identify, prioritize, and ship high-impact opportunities across Investing products
• Driving company impact through supporting senior product and content designers: staffing, hiring, guiding the work, growing their skills, facilitating career development, cultivating excellent performance, and building an inclusive culture
• Helping us innovate and scale as a company by partnering with leaders across Wealthfront. Identify and pursue impactful ideas on everything from what we build to how we work, such that we are able to learn as quickly and “lean-ly” as possible

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• 401K plan
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• Wellness reimbursements
• Professional development
• Employee investing discount